A Washington Post review of roughly 3,000 AI-generated voter guides found chatbots like ChatGPT frequently gave inaccurate information about candidates and races, including inventing a Missouri Senate seat not up for election and misclassifying municipal races as federal ones. The investigation found chatbots failed to correctly identify a user's congressional district 48 percent of the time, and were wrong 22 percent of the time even when they produced an answer.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-02
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned this week after an advisory committee found he had failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post op-ed he wrote about AI cheating in academia. The committee reviewed his Dartmouth-issued Claude account and found extensive use of the chatbot for revising drafts, debugging code, and generating figures, while noting he showed 'insufficient cooperation' by withholding personal LLM logs and declining to meet with investigators. Schnell maintains he used AI only as an editorial aid to refine arguments and grammar, not to draft content.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-30
Netflix has produced a six-episode series recreating Philip Zimbardo's controversial 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in which college students were assigned roles as guards or inmates. The Washington Post's Monica Hesse reviewed the show, noting it avoids the original study's most extreme abuses but still depicts participants behaving punitively without clear justification.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-29
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll of over 2,500 adults found 57 percent believe AI is bad for society, versus 42 percent who say it's good, with 17 percent calling it 'extremely' bad compared to just 2 percent calling it 'extremely' good. The survey also found 73 percent of respondents see a high or very high risk of AI-driven hacking of secure systems, and 65 percent worry about AI eliminating jobs.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-25
A Washington Post investigation citing an internal fundraising spreadsheet found Apple and Nvidia each committed $25 million to fund Trump's planned $600 million White House ballroom, tying them as the largest donors alongside the Adelson Family Foundation and Charlie Ergen's household and donor-advised fund. Together these four donations make up roughly 30% of the $333 million in contributions documented. Other tech firms named include Google (via a $22 million settlement-linked trust), Microsoft and Palantir ($10 million each), Amazon and Meta ($5 million each), and smaller sums from HP, Micron, Salesforce, Cisco, Coinbase, Ripple, ServiceNow and T-Mobile.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-15
The Washington Post obtained a donor list showing tech, telecom and crypto companies as the largest contributors to President Trump's White House ballroom project, totaling more than $183 million. NVIDIA, Apple and Dish Network co-founder Charles Ergen each gave $25 million, with Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, Google, Amazon, Cisco, Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, Gemini and Coinbase among other donors. About $77 million of the funds remain unaccounted for since the donations aren't subject to public disclosure or campaign finance rules.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-15
Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with over 620,000 X followers, worked as a civilian government employee under the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, part of a task force targeting 'woke' content at military war colleges. WIRED reviewed years of his social media posts containing extremist and anti-democratic rhetoric, including a 2021 call for authoritarian crackdowns on liberals, which had not previously been reported alongside his Pentagon role.
wired.com
· 2026-09-29
A DuckDuckGo survey found that a third of AI users have confided secrets to chatbots they wouldn't tell trusted people in their lives. Washington Post reporting shows these conversations aren't as private as users assume, having surfaced in at least a dozen court cases over the past two years and potentially being accessible to employers, law enforcement, or exposed through company data breaches like Anthropic's Claude leak in July.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-05
A Washington Post-Elon University poll found that more than a quarter of Americans use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini for emotional or personal support, with many saying they consider these tools friends or a way to feel less alone. Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak previously said Siri AI is deliberately built to avoid this kind of engagement-driven, sycophantic behavior seen in rival chatbots.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-02
For over a decade, computer science was seen as the surest path to a lucrative tech job, fueling a nearly 500% surge in CS degrees since 2008. Now, as artificial intelligence automates many coding tasks and shrinks entry-level tech hiring, some observers argue that math degrees may offer better long-term career security than CS.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-29
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